Author: Stephanie Chan / Source: VentureBeat
Indie publisher Raw Fury announced in December that it raised a seed round of $600,000, and it revealed today that one of the angel investors is Multiplay founder Craig Fletcher, who invested $125,000.
Other investors who participated include former Unity CEO David Helgason and former Electronic Arts executive Karl Magnus Troedsson, who led the round.U.K. retailer Game Digital acquired the game server hosting company Multiplay in 2015, and Fletcher stayed on as senior vice president of esports. Game sold Multiplay’s digital division to Unity in November, and in December, Fletcher left to start his investment fund and consultancy Wicked Sick. He is still involved and consults with Game as a “brand ambassador.”
“So Wicked Sick is the entity I set up to do consulting, advising, helping people either outside the industry understand what is this games thing, or esports,” said Fletcher in an interview with GamesBeat. “There’s very few people who have built successful companies in esports, exited them, and/or are independent. All the people who you want to talk to are usually aligned to a brand or an esports organization. I can talk very independently and say what I think about all of them, what their strengths and weaknesses are.”
Fletcher has a long history with esports. He began hosting LAN (local area network) parties in 1995, running tournaments for games like Id Software’s Doom II.
After founding Multiplay, he also started Insomnia Gaming Festival, one of the U.K.’s biggest game events, where folks can bring their own computers or consoles to play with other people. That started in 1999 and is still running. In addition to Insomnia, Multiplay has organized several other social gaming events like the Minecraft convention Minecon in 2012.With Fletcher’s well-documented interest in multiplayer games, it might seem odd that he’s teaming up with Raw Fury, which has a portfolio of mainly single-player titles like the stylish Metroidvania Dandara, the fiefdom-building side-scroller Kingdom, and the upcoming strategy game Bad North. However, Fletcher says that he’s passionate about single-player experiences as well. And he’s seeing how communities can emerge around these types of games.
“There would be releases of big single-player games, like Deus Ex, something like that, and you’d see…
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